Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1887-07-13
STATE, COAST AND ELsEw

Tehama county's valuations have in.
creased 100000 the past year.
Professor Melville, the balloon man,
was sunstruck at Colusa july 4.
A $4,000 fire occurred in the resi-.
dence of Joseph Penny at Portland,
Or, July4
Professor Van Tassel made a sue.
cessive balloon ascension at Sacra.
mento July 4.
A woodward at Marysville and a
barn at San Jose were burned by fire.
crackers July 4.
Earnest Shuster, Los Angeles boy,
was terribly hurt by the explosion OF
a shotgun July A.
The Revenue mine, at Richmond
Flats, Montana, has been sold to Bos.
ton parties for $500,000.
Portland, Or, claims to have set off
the finest display of fireworks on
the Coast July 4.
A train ran into herd of cattle
just east OF Cheyenne June 27, and
out of 800 head killed 81.
Senator Dolph thinks forts should
be built on Puget Sound w. T., aud
armed with heavy guns.
Over 300 shocks of earthquake have
been felt at Bavispe Sonora since the
heavy shake up on May 3rd.
England has society for "the pro-
lection of ancient buildings" Many
old churches have been restored by it,
A census terminated throughout
Brazil on March Both last shows there
are now less than 100000 slaves in the
whole empire.
Steel framed cabs are now being
manufactured in England, with view
to lightness and greater durability
than Is wood were used for the pur.
pose.
A petroleum spring has been discov-
cred at Isseistein, Holland. The quail
ity of the oil is good. An abundant
supply is promised A Berlin firm
has offered TO develop the resources Of
the field.
Mrs. Francis Hodgson Burnett is a
living refutasion of the base slander
that literary women make Indifferent
wives and mothers, She was pennl-
less and unknown to fame English
girl when she married the bright
young Tennesseean, DR.. Burnett, with
whom she has been remarkably happy.
They have five children, the eldest of
whom is the original of Little Lord
Fauntleroy."
Mrs. Celia Thaxter, whose most
charming poems are those of the sea,
had strange girlhood. Her father, a
Mr. Laighton, who was a thorough
misanthrope from various disappoint
menls, left Boston when she was a
child and bought the isle of Shoales
and lived in that lonely spot, which In
those days was quite cut off from the
world. There his daughter was brought
up in utter isolation.
Millet, who died in 1875, painted
for thirty one years, and during all
that time produced only eighty pict.
ures. Said New York artist the
other day: "Millet's Anpeus' was
sold fo, $400 about twenty years ago
and il took whole year to induce
some one to buy the picture at that
price. A dozen picture. buyers could
now be found who wonld gladly pay
$50, 600 for the canvass
The German Emperor recently con.
firmed the degradation of Maj. Hinze,
who was tried by n "court of honor"
of the staff officers of the
Guard Corps, and adiudged unworthy
of the right to the title OF Major and to
wear the uniform Of the army, because
he refused TO accept challenge to a
duel. In the German Criminal Code,
there is clause forbidding cha,leng-
ing to duel under penalty of impris
onInent for six mouths.
When the address to the Queen at
the opening of the English Royal
Courts was under consideration by the
Judges, one very eminent Judge OF Ap'
peal objected to the porase "concions
as we are of our own shortcomings"
II am not concious of shortcomings
he said" and If were, would not
be so foolish as to say so:' whereupon
a learned Lord Justice blandiy OBJ
served. suppose we say conscious a.
we are of each others shortcomings v